August AD 79 – The Dreadful Day
The end of the story of our Pompeian family and the Death of Pliney the Elder attempting to rescue friends.
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u3a Latin Session 11
Trouble at the Local Elections . In early Rome, The abduction of the Sabine women, and at Troy the shame of Ajax.
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Romans versus Greeks, Statues, Romulus and Remus – a fatal disagreement, and Greeks versus Trojans continued.
Cambridge Latin Course, Section 10. Debating the superiority of Romans versus Greeks.
(Can’t help being reminded of the debate in ‘The Life of Brian’. – ‘what did the Romans ever do for us?’)
u3aLatin Group Session 9
Leisure time in Pompeii; Sport, Shopping, and Quintus has a birthday. When Paris met Helen, and the beginning of the story of Romulus and Remus
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The entertainment at the Pompeian Amphitheatre; Aemelius and Marcus Take a Trip to Ostia
Cambridge Book 1 and on Line – Gladiatores The events at the Amphitheatre and the bloodshed in the Streets, make Football hooliganism look tame!
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u3a Latin Group Session 7
A dinner Party where there is a lot to drink and things get Spooky, Slave problems, Death of Hector Part 1.
We’ve all done it haven’t we? Started telling ghost stories and been scared to walk home- it seems the Pompeians were no different from the rest of us.
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Cambridge Section 6, A Public Fight, Introducing Felix. Tablet inscriptions. Ovid Metamorphoses – Daedelus and Icarus
(The Ovid has been modified and given as prose, due to its very difficult nature. )
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Cambridge Book 1, Section 5. Marcus in school in Rome, Circe’s Island Part 2.
In Cambridge Section 5 the actors are in town. In Rome Marcus and his fellow pupils are in class and around the town, and Ulysses is reunited with his crew.
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The Roman Family on Holiday: The Story of the Trojan Horse: Circe’s Island Part 1
This weeks’s session included Cambridge Book 1, Section 4, The Roman Family on holiday, and two “unseens”, the Trojan Horse, and Ulysses on Circe’s Island
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The Forum in Pompey, Aemelius and Marcus Out and About in Rome, Androcles and the Lion, two dumb Roman Soldiers, Angels & shepherds
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